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Who knew that PETA was killing animals<\/a>? Do you think they did it humanely? What’s amazing about this article is their defense, it’s “better than sitting in a stinking pound?” It reminded me of the left’s abortion arguments. Why do they think that death is in any way preferable over life?<\/p>\n

It is an unlikely locale for an unlikely criminal case. Today, two employees of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a radical animal-rights group that opposes meat-eating, are on trial for the strangest of charges: killing animals.
\nPETA is based in Norfolk, Va., but its work has international scope. The group, which raises more than $25 million a year from 1.6 million supporters, opposes any human use of animals, whether for food, fashion or research. In the more than two decades since its founding, it has become a major threat to medical researchers, meatpackers, fur sellers and others.
\nNow, two of its employees stand accused of tossing garbage bags full of euthanized cats and dogs into a Dumpster behind a Piggly Wiggly in Hertford County, 130 miles northeast of Raleigh.
\nAdria J. Hinkle and Andrew B. Cook, both of whom work in PETA’s Norfolk office, are charged with 21 counts each of animal cruelty, a felony that can carry prison time, along with littering and obtaining property by false pretenses.
\n[…]
\nNow, jurors will decide whether Hinkle and Cook were, as PETA argues, providing humane deaths to animals that would otherwise have been painfully killed in gas chambers — or whether, as several local officials say, they were taking animals on the promise of finding them homes and secretly killing them.
\nA PETA spokeswoman, Kathy Guillermo, said PETA never wanted to get into the business of euthanizing animals. But she said the group couldn’t ignore the horrible conditions in animal shelters around Norfolk and in northeastern North Carolina. The group now euthanizes thousands of animals a year<\/span>.
\n“Euthanasia is a better alternative to sitting in a stinking pound<\/span>,” Guillermo said.
\nPETA opponents are drawing attention to this little-known facet of the group’s work.
\nOn Monday morning, the Washington D.C.-based Center for Consumer Freedom, an anti-PETA group funded by restaurants and meat producers, drove a mobile billboard truck reading “PETA: As Warm and Cuddly as You Thought<\/span>?” past the courthouse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wonder if the animal lovers will boycott PETA now? I doubt it, hypocrisy doesn’t appear to bother the left too much<\/a>, look at how they treat the environment and they whine at us about our treatment.<\/p>\n

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